Getting Political

The Far Right: Part 1

TALKED TO DEATH by Stephen Singular

"A First-rate piece of journalism" - St Louis Dispatch

THE VICTIM: Alan Berg was the talk-show host all of Denver loved to hate. Aggravating. Irrepressible. Charismatic. Nobody escaped his withering attacks on hypocrisy, bigotry, and injustice.

THE CRIME: Berg was brutally murdered in front of his house. Unarmed. Unsuspecting. He was caught in a hail of machine-gun fire. His death shocked the country... and led the FBI on a nationwide manhunt for the killers.

THE SUSPECTS: The trail led investigators to the Order, a radical cult of neo-Nazi white supremacists. Armed and violent - their doctrine declared war on the United States and preached a philosophy of racial hatred and fear.

"A chilling examination of American-born right-wing terrorism." - Chicago Tribune

©1987 Stephen Singular
Beech Tree Books edition published 1987
Berkley edition/March 1989

THE NATIONAL FRONT by Martin Walker

Founded ten years ago, the National Front is now the country's fourth largest political party, winning increasing success in local and national elections.
Its leadership includes men who were once proud to be termed Nazi, who served prison sentences for organizing para-military groups, who talked of Jews as 'maggots', of blacks as 'scum', and who dreamt of the coming of the 'chill north wind flaunting the swastika banner in the sky'. Its central message remains one of racial hatred. Yet, such men, and such a party, have achieved electoral respectability.
Martin Walker of the Guardian has been studying the National Front for four years; in this dispassionate account he traces the development of the far right since Mosley, and shows how the National Front grew out of that tradition. He examines the Front's leadership and members, its policies and its appeal, and shows how it has been able to exploit issues such as immigration to win a substantial following.
The National Front can no longer be dismissed as a party of the lunatic fringe; it must be understood, if it is to be opposed. Martin Walker's book is the first to make such an understanding possible.

First published by Fontana Paperbacks 1977
© Martin Walker 1977

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